Re: Still no JSR-82 ??
Re: Still no JSR-82 ??
- Subject: Re: Still no JSR-82 ??
- From: William Jon Shipley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 02:49:13 -0700
If you enjoy Java and its programs, great -- I don't want to discourage
you or fight with you. But the software that's selling Macs is not
written in Java. None of it. Apple would be crazy to concentrate their
resources on a language that they've tried twice before to exploit, to
disastrous effect each time. (In the early days of Rhapsody Apple
decided to port all of its bundled Obj-C apps to Java -- it found them
so slow and buggy it ported them all back to Obj-C. Apple also decided
to throw away the Obj-C WebObjects and port it to Java in 5.0. Haven't
heard much about WebObjects lately, have you?)
The Bluetooth team made the right decision to support Objective-C right
out of the gate -- I was able to write a driver for a Bluetooth
handheld scanner in a single day, without knowing anything about
Bluetooth before that.
-Wil Shipley
Delicious Monster Software
On May 9, 2004, at 2:26 AM, Bruce Hopkins wrote:
Apple really needs to consider where it should focus its resources,
because there are millions of Java programmers out there, compared to
the thousands of Objective-C developers.
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